A group on the quad is advocating marijuana use to increase academic achievement. You remember reading about this in your psychology textbook and report to your friends that studies have found
A. a positive correlation between marijuana usage and academic achievement.
B. a negative correlation between marijuana usage and memory function.
C. no relationship between marijuana usage and academic achievement.
D. that marijuana usage causes lowered academic achievement.
Answer: B
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Critics of the Masters and Johnson approach to sexual responses emphasize that these two researchers
a. described the stages of sexual response correctly, but they were incorrect about the order of the stages. b. overemphasized the importance of emotions in our sexual responses. c. presented a neatly ordered sequence of events that doesn't account for the variety of sexual experiences. d. proposed stages that don't apply to female sexual responses because the studies were only conducted on men.
When a person has not experienced a reinforcer for a long time, will the reinforcer be more or less effective? ____________________ What is this process called? _____________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
What is instinctual behavior indicative of?
a. unlearned responses c. species-specific responses b. genetically transmitted behaviors d. all of these
Observational research allows a researcher to
a. make statements about causality. b. make predictions about one variable based on knowledge of another. c. provide a description of a phenomenon. d. randomly assign participants to conditions of an experiment.